The document discusses eTwinning, a program that promotes school cooperation and teacher professional development across Europe. It has over 130,000 participating schools and 280,000 registered teachers. The document examines how eTwinning can help address current issues in education like declining teacher skills and the lack of technology use in schools. It also explores how eTwinning serves as a laboratory of innovation by nurturing new teaching practices and how its approach could help mainstream innovation in education systems across Europe.
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Current education issues
•1 in 4 students are early school leavers (40% do not find a job)
•1 in 5 young people are unemployed versus 500 000+ ICT jobs
Education and employability
•Is the current offer of in-service training programmesmeeting the needs of (aging) teachers ?
•Retention rate of new entrants after 3 years
Teacher capacity building and supply
•Use of technology in schools (few time a months never)
•Lack of ICT infrastructure (still)
•Technology-enhanced teaching competence and students’ digital competence
Digital competence and the digital divide
•How to mainstream successful innovation?
•How to enable large scale adoption by practitioners?
Innovations fail to scale
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Current education issues
eTwinning massive success over the last 9 years has a role to play
Nurturing new teaching and learning practices
Innovative bottom up approach
Openness to teachers
4. 131 000 schools
40 countries including eTwinning+
30,000 visitors/day
280 000 teachers
37 500 projects
eTwinninginnovation successstory
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eTwinning as a laboratory of innovation
5. New Professional development opportunities
Professional Development Workshops –Learning events
Professional development
activities for teachers
Community of teachers in Europe
Governing and animation structure
Opening to other countries –eTwinning+
Major achievements
Major achievementsof eTwinning
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6. Potential innovationadoption
Pedagogy
Technology
School vision
Education systems
Teaching processes
Curriculum
Assessment
Innovation in education –a complex process
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Flipped classroom
Self directed learning
In and out school learning processes
IWB -1:1 – tablets
Mobile learning
Digital Text books
Open Educational
Resources
Use of laptops & Access to internet
Learning analytics
Cloud computing
BYOD -eSafety
Autonomyflexibility curriculum
7. Investing in Education – Current trends – Transformation of
education approaches
• Rethinking the role of teachers
• Impact of social media platforms
• Increasing focus on OER
• Evolution of on line learning
• Rise of data driven learning and assessment
• Cloud computing and tablet computing
• Educational games and mobile learning
• Personalised learning
• Integrating ICT in teacher education
• Students’ low digital competence
• Authentic learning opportunities
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8. Opening Learning Environments –opportunities to innovate for organisationsteachers and learners
Open Educational Resources – opportunities to use open knowledge for better quality and access
Connectivity and Innovation – partnerships for infrastructures, new products and services and interoperability
A concerted efforts to seize the opportunities of the digital revolution
Four elements
Technology and Open Educational Resources as opportunities to reshape EU Education
Opening up education communication –Sept 2013
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framework
organisations
learners
•Single gateway in Europe •Curriculum •High quality standards
broadband,
•European excellence
•Integrated concerted
9. eTwinning3 –The future of learning
How eTwinningcould contribute to this challenge of mainstreaming innovation?
10. eTwinning
eTwinning3 –Support for future schoolingchallenges
Cooperationplatform
eTwinningconference
Qualitylabel
Monitoring
Community
HowhaseTwinningimpactedteachers, classesandschoolpractices?
RewardingeTwinning
ContinuingProfessional Development
Learning events-PDWs
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11. Has eTwinningimpacted teachers, classes and school practices?
~320000schoolsinEurope
131000eTwinningschools
40%ofEuropeanschools
6000000teachers
280000eTwinningteachers
5%ofEuropeanteachers
Around2eTwinningteachersperschool
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Number of schools
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Number of eTwinning Schools
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Number of teachers
Different phases of eTwinning
Number of eTwinning Teachers
12. Towards an eTwinningschool strategy
Michael Fullan–Stratosphere-2013
Innovative education systems
Innovation challenges
Innovative teachers
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InnovativeschoolGlobal approach
14. eTwinning
eTwinning3 –Support for future schoolingchallenges
Cooperationplatform
eTwinningconference
Qualitylabel
Monitoring
Community
HowcaneTwinningbemainstreamed?
HowcaneTwinningleverageitsroleoflaboratoryofinnovation?
RewardingeTwinning
ContinuingProfessional Development
Learning events-PDWs
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Mainstreaming versus Innovation
15. School actors
eTwinning
eTwinning3 –Mainstreaminginnovation
Cooperationplatform
ContinuingProfessional Development
Learning events-PDWs
RewardingeTwinning
eTwinningconference
Qualitylabel
Monitoring
Community
Technical
challenges
BYOD
OER
Cloud computing
Mobile learning
Tablets
On line learning
Pedagogy
challenges
Flipped
classroom
Digital textbooks
Digital competences
Assessment
Teacher
training
Head of schools
Games
IT advisers
Guidance counsellors
Teachers
Roleof the SchoolEducation Gateway
Learning
analytics
16. Access to European cooperation policy in school education for teachers and schools
Large scale project community
Support and tools for the development of the school cooperation dimension in Erasmus+
Sharing of best practices on projects
SchoolEducation Gateway
17. eTwinning
•Facilitator of project cooperation
•Community of teachers
•Support for professional development of teachers –Rewarding eTwinningteacher work
eTwinningand the School Education gateway
School Education Gateway
•Sharing of best practices on projects
•Open to all schools and teachers
•Access to innovation on education
How to initiate teaching and learning practices in various fields
How to share the results and provide inspiration for schools and teachers
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From a bonding capital network to a bridging capital platform
18. Balance between top down and bottom up approaches
Enabling legislation (national, local) to facilitate the new practices
Strengthening the evidence based of new practices
(representative pilots)
eTwinning+ and national
Empowering and rewarding teachers to take up new practices
Pre and In service training
Nurturing innovation
through networks
CoP
Four recommendations
Recommendations -mainstreaming approach
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19. The important role of teachers
By 2030 simply knowing facts will have little value.
Education will need to equip learners to think:
•Creatively
•Independently
•Rigorously
•Collaboratively
In full awareness of themselves and their social context
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EquinoxBlueprint–Learning 2030
20. •Teachers are at the heart of the change
•Teachers as innovators and researchers –adapt to rapid changes in digital technology and on student needs
•Teachers as the orchestrator of the learning processes
•Teachers as data analyst experts (supporting new assessment approaches)
•Collaborative learning with peers -Untapped potential of current teachers communities
•Inspiring teachers
The important role of teachers
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21. What is an efficient teacher in the 21stcentury?
A professional with a high judgment capacity in situation
Teaching today is about being a reflective professional teacher
(Donald Schön)
The professional teacher
as one who learns from teaching
rather than
one who has finished learning how to teach
Linda Darling-Hammond,
Stanford Graduate School of Education
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22. •From eTwinningteachers to eTwinningclasses and eTwinningschools
•Role of school leadership
eTwinningwhole school approach
Conclusion -Major challenges of eTwinning
•eTwinningpart of the curriculum for pre service training of future teachers
•eTwinningpart of career development for teachers
eTwinningfully embedded
in education systems
•Support for innovative approaches (Cloud computing, BYOD, new assessment models, learning analytics, …..)
Laboratory of innovation
•eTwinningnational
•eTwinning+
•Exchange of practices beyond projects
Mainstreaming
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23. Conclusion
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela